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Allerseelen, Op. 10, No. 8
Richard Strauss
your humble narrator, soprano; James Janssen, piano

Song for All Soul’s Day. Text, for love remembered. The hardest thing to do is the most necessary. And that’s all I plan to say about that. 

Place in the vase the final autumn roses
and put the crimson asters on display;
and let us talk again of love together,
as once in May.

Give me your hand, and secretly I'll clasp it.
If people see, I care not what they say.
Give me just one now of your sweetest glances,
as then in May.

Each grave today abounds in flowers and fragrance
since for the dead this is a holy day.
Come to my heart, let me again embrace you,
as once in May, as once in May.